Review: HP ZBook Firefly 14 G11 A
This pro laptop is a great all rounder for CAD and BIM, with a solid, well built 14-inch chassis
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Greg Corke
After studying civil engineering and architecture at the University of Leeds Greg Corke turned his back on 'real' engineering and has been writing about technology for architects, engineers and designers ever since. He is AEC Magazine's co-founder, managing editor and resident workstation specialist and is also a bit obsessed with travel, BBQ, cooking, beer and the (often painful) pastime of supporting Arsenal.
Review: Scan 3XS GWP-A1-C24 & GWP-A1-R32
Between these two attractive desktops, Scan has most bases covered in AEC
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Review: Comino Grando workstation RM
With an innovative liquid cooling system, this desktop behemoth delivers performance like no other
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AMD Ryzen 9000 vs Intel Core Ultra 200S Series processors
We test the latest processors with CAD, BIM, rendering, simulation, and reality modelling software
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Review: Boxx Apexx A3
This compact desktop with liquid cooled ‘Zen 5’ AMD Ryzen 9000 Series processor and Nvidia RTX 5000 Ada Generation GPU is a powerhouse for design viz
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The integrated GPU comes of age
The AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro ‘Strix Halo’ processor changes the game for integrated GPUs for users of CAD,BIM, viz and beyond
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The AI enigma – challenges for workstations
The direction in which some AEC software developers are heading raises important questions about workstation investments
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Workstations for arch viz
We test GPUs and CPUs for arch viz - D5 Render, Twinmotion, Lumion, Chaos Enscape, V-Ray, and Corona
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Nvidia RTX GPUs for Stable Diffusion
For text-to-image AI, processing is often pushed to the cloud, but the GPU in your workstation may already be perfectly capable
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Nvidia DLSS 4 uses AI to boost frame rates in viz software
Real time neural rendering technology evolves so that 15 out of every 16 pixels can now be generated by AI
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